Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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A&M can't find cuts but they sure can bill
MAY 28 The Alvarez & Marsal firm, hired by Bobby Jindal to find $500 million in cuts to save his fiscal skin, hasn't come up with much to speak of as yet, blogger Tom Aswell tells us. Oh -- except for a $2 million dollar bill for their "services." They managed to produce that much, Aswell says.
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Elliott on the latest census data
MAY 28 Elliott Stonecipher gives us the low-down on the latest census data from Louisiana cities in this post on the Forward Now blog. Shreveport is down, NOLA is up, Baton Rouge is down and Lafayette is up, he says.
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Grace: lawmakers chose to abstain on sex ed
MAY 28 Louisiana lawmakers are doing their best to restrict access to abortion, but they also refuse to do anything to prevent unwanted pregnancies, columnist Stephanie Grace writes in this post. If they don't want people to have abortions, maybe they want to think about improving sex education, she suggests.
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MAY 28 Here's the second half of Jason Brad Berry's interview with Lionel Sutton on the American Zombie blog. Sutton was once an employee of the Deepwater Horizon Economic Claims Center, and agreed to this interview without any restrictions on what would be discussed.
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Preservation vs. Development in NOLA
MAY 28 There's an old battle raging in New Orleans, this post on Gambit tells us, this time on Canal Street. A developer wants to level a historic building to make way for a high-rise hotel. So what's the best move here? Good question.
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Mother Jones notices Jindal's absences
MAY 28 Bobby Jindal gets some national ink, although not that positive, from the Political Mojo blog of Mother Jones magazine. The author, who profiled Jindal not long ago, notes that our Governor has been "largely AWOL from Baton Rouge" during this session. No kidding.
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Mann: Is Vitter just awful, or something more?
MAY 28 Blogger Bob Mann offers an interesting suggestion (for him) in this post: that we read a column by Quin Hillyer, a politician who thinks he's posing as a columnist for the Advocate these days. In this post, which Mann assures us is not like Quin's usual spiffed up Jindal press releases, there's a "a fascinating examination of Sen. David Vitter's utter lack of decency." (He's not wrong, by the way; it is definitely fascinating.)
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Crazy Crawfish analyzes John White
MAY 28 Crazy Crawfish is again blogging about John White in this post, but this time he's analyzing the (alleged) boy wonder's motivations. The Crawfish opines that White, at one time anyway, actually believed the rhetoric he uses.